Campus EU

by Alexandra den Heijer (project leader)

Since 2012 our TU Delft research team has been working on the project “European campus”, which will have its first milestone with a book in 2014 and a conference in 2015, in collaboration with the European University Association (EUA – www.eua.be). The research team is studying the state of the campus in all 28 EU member states and collects data about (number of) students and employees, funding, locations, iconic buildings and (number and state of) m2 floor area.

Preliminary results of European campus research – to be published in book “The European campus – the heritage and challenges” in 2014

For this project our European university network is involved – both academically and professionally. Part of this European campus research is the development of a decision-support tool: “a campus stress test”. This stress test contain a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess current European campuses and new campus plans (examples of indicators: space utilization in users/m2, ecological footprint, inter-university collaboration, total costs of ownership in euros/m2, % shared university-city functions, effective use of European heritage buildings), using European best practices as references and benchmarks.

If you want to be informed about the “campus stress test”, the conference or the book, send a message to a.c.denheijer@tudelft.nl for notifications.

To order the 2011 BOOK "Managing the university campus" (Den Heijer, 2011):
- The paperback edition of the book is available for order at Eburon Academic Publishers (€49,-, excl. shipping).
- The ebook edition (€9,99) is available at Eburon, Amazon.com and for iPad at the iBookstore.

For more articles, papers, book chapters about managing the university campus, see PUBLICATIONS.

About this blog

Author Alexandra den Heijer (associate professor, TU Delft) started this blog when her book "Managing the university campus" was launched on March 4, 2011. The blog describes the process after the book launch: the publicity, many lectures, articles, papers, new research and visits to campuses all over the world.